Psychiatry In Techno Colors: A Psychiatrist's Memoir Of Lessons Learned About The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Anxiety And Depression

This is the new and revised second edition of Psychiatry in Techno Colors. This second edition adds nine new essays with updated clinical pearls and annotations to the original chapters including information on new medications. It provides more detailed strategies for making diagnoses that hopefully lead to better treatment outcomes. Psychiatry has much to offer yet many patients suffer from long treatment trials driven by "evidenced based" treatment guidelines derived from reliable but invalid diagnoses. The author, Neil Liebowitz, M.D. is the founder and director of the Connecticut Anxiety and Depression Treatment Center in Farmington, Connecticut. In this collection of essays he tells clinical pearls about the evolution of modern psychiatric treatment. These are personal stories of the author and his patients that illustrate some of the dilemmas and possible solutions for key psychiatric problems. From growing up on suburban Long Island to residency training at Yale, to an academic career at the University of Connecticut, lessons were learned about how best to understand psychiatric problems and a strategy to treat them. Its stories and ideas are meant to help others to become better patients and clinicians. With over 30 years of psychiatric practice including supervising residents, nurse practitioners and medical students and running a full time private psychiatric practice he has accumulated experiential knowledge which he is eager to share with others. The author hopes that some of his ideas might be tested in the future with more rigorous investigative techniques to either provide support for or show them to be inaccurate observations. Dr. Liebowitz graduated as an Echols scholar and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia in 1978. He worked as a research assistant at Stanford University during a year off from college in 1977. He graduated from Stony Brook University Medical School in 1982 including psychiatry clerkship at Long Island Jewish/ Hillside Hospital during the release of DSM III. A Psychiatry sub-internship was completed at Columbia University Psychiatric Institute in 1981. He completed his psychiatric residency at Yale University in 1986. After completion he joined the Psychiatry faculty at the University of Connecticut where he remains an assistant clinical professor. He opened the Connecticut Anxiety and Depression treatment center in 1994. His peripatetic training provided for a diversity of learning experiences with a need to make sense of very diverse and divergent expert opinions.The price has been kept low to encourage wider distribution. Feel free to share my ideas. Be kind. NRL

Author: Neil Liebowitz M. D.

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Mar 24, 2019

Number of Pages: 279 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1090748795

ISBN-13: 9781090748799